African Action Congress (AAC) 2023 presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has described the ongoing trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, as persecution and not prosecution.
Naijaonpoint reports that Sowore made this known while featuring on News Central’s Breakfast Central on Friday.
The human rights activist said he would set aside his political differences with former President, Goodluck Jonathan, and ex-Vice president, Atiku Abubakar, to push for the release of Nnamdi Kanu.
Sowore said he has reached out to Jonathan, Atiku and some southeastern political leaders about the planned protest.
He said, “We all know that one of the tenets of justice is speedy and fair trial and we all know that what happened in Kanu’s case was that there is no trial going on, its just theatrics.
“We as the people who understand, fought for and tried our best to human rights have a duty to let the country know that this sad development in our polity, we can’t pretend that Nnamdi Kanu is undergoing trial, this not trial, not prosecution but persecution.
“I made it known that I’m going to set aside my political differences with some people.
“It should be on record that this is only regarding the struggle for Nnamdi Kanu’s release, I have reached out to many people, I did reach out to Atiku through his aide that he should come on board. Presently, I’m surprised that it happened very fast.
“I reached out to eastern political leaders first like governors of Anambra, Abia, Peter Obi and none have responded until Atiku, I reached out to Abaribe but he has not publicly confirmed his intent to join.
“I’m going to reach out to more people, I’m going to reach out to Goodluck Jonathan so he would take a position on this. So I don’t think that anybody should take this as a political opportunity as they are trying to present it.”
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